idea-to-proposal

idea-to-proposal is a skill for Claude Code from JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin. It costs 158 tokens per session (4,607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning workflow that evaluates a research idea, improves it, and turns it into a proposal. It can accept free text, structured notes, paper extensions, or a file path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess AI research ideas, refine weak points, search related papers, and draft a method and experiment plan for a conference or journal proposal.
Why use it?
It helps replace scattered idea development and manual literature checking with a structured review of novelty, feasibility, significance, clarity, and other criteria.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the academic-research plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess AI research ideas, refine weak points, search related papers, and draft a method and experiment plan for a conference or journal proposal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeandiable/academic-research-plugin/idea-to-proposal
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin --skill idea-to-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,607 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00158 $0.04607
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.02303
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00921
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00461

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6f6df374acc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-to-proposal scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bibtex_utils.py, scripts/paper_search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/idea-to-proposal/SKILL.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea-to-Proposal Skill

Overview

This skill takes a raw research idea through a rigorous multi-phase pipeline:

  1. Idea Structuring — Parse any input format into a structured research brief
  2. Literature Search + 8-Dimension Evaluation — Parallel agents search literature and score the idea
  3. Autonomous Refinement Loop — Iteratively improve weak dimensions until all meet threshold
  4. Human Review Gate — Present scores and refined idea for user approval
  5. Proposal Generation — Parallel agents write method design and experiment plan

The output is a publication-quality research proposal suitable for a top-tier AI conference, saved to the user's Obsidian vault.

Setup

Before running the skill, install dependencies:

pip install -r "BASE_DIR/scripts/requirements.txt"

Required packages:

  • arxiv — arXiv API access
  • requests — HTTP requests for paper fetching
  • bibtexparser — BibTeX parsing and generation
  • semanticscholar — Semantic Scholar API integration

Parameters

Parse the following from $ARGUMENTS:

Parameter Default Description
--target-venue none (general) Conference/journal: NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, AAAI, ICCV, ICLR
--threshold 7 Minimum score (1-10) across all 8 dimensions to pass
--max-rounds 3 Maximum autonomous refinement rounds before human gate
--domain auto-detect Research domain for literature search focus

Everything else in $ARGUMENTS is the idea input (text, file path, or URL).

Output Directory

~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/My_note/10_Projects/Idea-Proposals/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>/
├── idea-evolution.md          # Version history through refinement rounds
├── evaluation-report.md       # Final scores + per-dimension analysis
├── proposal.md                # The full research proposal
├── references.bib             # All collected BibTeX citations
├── experiment-benchmarks.md   # Detailed benchmark/baseline survey
└── figures/                   # Mermaid diagrams

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 503 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 6f6df374acc1

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idea-to-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin (21 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 4,607 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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